Leadership is an Exercise in Patience
Leadership is like a muscle. It doesn’t grow just because you want it to. It doesn’t grow because you dream of it growing. Growth and skilled leadership take real work, hard work and most of […]
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Millennial Leadership Lesson #1- Execution trumps Examination
Leadership Lesson #1 : Execution trumps Examination (Implementation over Intentions & Inspection) If all you do is identify solutions to the problem, but never implement steps to solve the problem, then you are part of […]
Growing Up vs. Getting Better – Lessons for Millennial Leaders & Organizations
Getting better is a waste of time. Growing up is not. Because we live in a self-obsessed culture where everyone can be everything and do anything based upon how you think or how you feel, […]
Teaching the Millennial Leader – Pt. 1
“Leaders are readers and readers are leaders” This is an expression that my mother, who raised six successful children, would often proclaim. My mother wanted us to read the Bible and then any other good […]
Leaders Have Followers
The strength of a leader is found in the strength of the followers. You are not a leader unless you have followers. You are not a great leader unless you have great followers. Greatness is […]
How to Create Culture
What is culture? Peter Drucker famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” We can acknowledge that culture is more important than strategy. Instead of spending more investment on strategy, spend more time on building culture. […]
6 Things to Look for in a Leader
Leadership seems to be lost these days. What should we be looking for in our leaders? There is not much debate around leadership anymore. The fact is widely acknowledged that leadership is at an all-time […]
How to Select Better Talent: The Key is Chemistry
Do you need help selecting the right people? Are you struggling to land the best people you can for the best position possible? Are you finding it difficult to determine if a candidate really will […]
The Power of a Mindset
“When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world…” ~Carol Dweck Imagine a world where everything was as smooth as glass, everything was in its place and in order, where everything and everyone worked […]
Podcast: What Makes a Leader – Activity over Passivity
http://media.blubrry.com/alexvann_leadership_podcast/www.alexvann.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/20160608-090451.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” -Thomas Jefferson *Leaders have followers. You are […]